INSIGHTS

AWS Re:invent 2017 Recap - The Security Version

Ashish Rajan

Senior Security Consultant, Versent

This is my first AWS re:invent and I was really excited to meet and hear from other professionals on how AWS has changed their companies for the better. I had a lot of interesting conversations with SaaS providers and other vendors about security in cloud, multi-cloud environments, chaos engineers, security at scale.

December 6, 2017

I would like to share a recap from AWS re:invent 2017, focusing only on the security releases from the conference.

This service will secure a fleet of IoT devices managed
by AWS. The service was announced as part of the next phase of IoT for AWS. The
service was announced along with IoT device management and IoT Analytics.

It will have the following features — audit device policies, monitor device behavior, identify
anomalies and out of compliance behavior and generate alerts.

The Amazon Time Sync service has been released and it’s
free for use. This means the AWS resources can use the local 169.254.169.123 IP
address, instead of internet connections to get their server time synched to
Amazon time sync service.